Home > Travel > Destination International >

Carnac

Newest Review: ... making fun of many of those ideas. His conclusion? “ …if anyone asks me, after so many opinions, which is my own, I shall utter one that is irrefutable, irrebuttable, irresistible. […] And here is that opinion: the stones of Carnac are indeed big stones!” I’m with Flaubert on that one… I don’t think we will ever really know what the stones of Carnac were for, their origin lost forever in the mist of time. But I think that is what makes Carnac such a magical, mysterious, beautiful place. Best to leave it at that.... more

Read Reviews for Carnac

Carnac: Stoned in Brittany. (1267 words)
by - written on 20/07/06 (Very useful, 334 readings)
Rating:

Carnac, in Brittany, is one of the high places of megalithic culture. The great standing stone alignments are to Brittany what Stonehenge is to prehistoric England. I first visited this as a very young child and there is somewhere a picture of me sitting on a megalith aged about four. Nowadays though, a visit to Carnac is rather different, as the menhirs (a Breton word for standing stone) cannot be approached most of the time, due to the huge numbers of visitors to this site who had started to endanger the soil around the monuments. The Morbihan area is particularly rich in megalithic structures, and around Carnac itself, there are many outstanding ... Read the complete review